Four days after announcing his decision to close Télam, President
Javier Milei
stated that
"there are 100 barracks"
in the state agency and
questioned those who "cry" over the closure
.
"Can you imagine leaving the Télam building open for them to take over? With the Minister of Security (Patricia Bullrich)
we decided that we were going to put up fences and that no one was going to enter
," said Milei when justifying why the Buenos Aires police fenced off early this Monday the two buildings of the agency in the City of Buenos Aires.
During his visit to Expoagro 2024, the libertarian continued: "There was the
possibility of physical conflict.
Those who were going to cause trouble were not the journalists, there
are 100 barbarians in Télam."
In this framework, the head of state said that
"public companies are political storage tanks
, they use them as a policy box and fill them with employees."
"
Now they are crying for Télam
. There is a criminal who says
'close Télam as if it were important in terms of public spending'
. If it is not important, why doesn't he put it in?" Milei shot, in a clear allusion to the leader of Truckers and leader of the CGT, Pablo Moyano, who described the closure of the news agency as a "shambles."
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